Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, is a world-renowned expert on urban and suburban design, is director of architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, and on the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Widely recognized as a leader in finding solutions for aging suburbs, she co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs and more than 35 other articles and book chapters. Dunham-Jones has received more than 20 awards for her work in architectural design, education and research and is a frequent speaker on urban design, sprawl, planning, and changing demographics appearing on CNN and CBS, and in Newsweek, Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Boston Globe. She received her undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning and her masterâs degree in architecture from Princeton.